View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... John K. Hillers

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... John K. HillersView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking in the Uruq al Awarik sands or Al Jaladah plain in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.

Two Duru boys stand in the foreground

standing in front of a tree in the Jabal Qara mountains

with a fisherman inspecting his catch in the foreground

Each man is followed by a baggage camel on a lead

Rays of sunlight pierce through a high overhead canopy made from palm fronds

He is wearing a plain headscarf and a dark coloured thobe (shirt) topped with a khanjar (dagger)

crouches in the sand in front of a tree

two of whom are paddling

In the foreground a number of female shoppers visit two traders stalls

View of a group of people standing on the beach in the town of Ash Shihr

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through Al Dhafra sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Dhibi well to Al Batin sands

behind the right dune ridge